'The Woman on the Cross'' - is a scandalous novel by the Russian fiction writer, journalist, the author of the cinematic scripts Anna Mar (Anna Yakovlevna Lenshina, 1887-1917). The scandal, connected to the novel, got not only literary, but also social character. It was sold out in 10 days, but it was mercilessly criticized. «the Woman on the Cross» did not get any positive comment. The sexually explicit scenes, the revealing of everything secret, hidden, which the right-minded citizens did not want to admit in themselves, all that aroused up the storm of sanctimonious resentment.
